The Cars

Our start-up plan has been to build a new car from the ground up each year and optimize it to compete the following year for a competition cycle of two years per vehicle.
That means that we have brought two cars to the competition each year, one with competition experience and the other being completely new.
This has allowed us rapid experimentation with new technologies, while at the same time improving on existing designs and really utilizing experienced gained through competition.

In the history of our program, we have retired two competition vehicles thus far: Scarlet Hawk and Red Rocket.
Red Rocket is a series hybrid we brought to the inaugural competition in 2007 as only one of eight teams.
In 2008, Scarlet Hawk celebrated its debut with a 3rd place finish and one of two teams to finish the endurance event.
In 2010, Hammer Hawk won one of the most prestigious adwards - the 2010 1st Place GM Best Engineered Hybrid Systems Award.